Red and Blue serve rival factions working to secure different futures. A letter opens a forbidden correspondence across the temporal conflict, and professional antagonism develops into a dangerous emotional connection. This science-fiction novella follows two agents whose private exchanges put loyalty and love under competing pressures.
Nuria Badal believes she could have prevented the 2017 attack on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas. The decision that follows that conviction changes her life and becomes bound up with the country’s future. Moving toward a dystopian Barcelona, the thriller examines the consequences of acting on a seemingly decisive second chance.
People begin recalling lives they have never lived. New York detective Barry Sutton investigates the apparent affliction, while neuroscientist Helena Smith’s work brings memory and time into the same mystery. As recollection and shared reality cease to agree, understanding what has happened becomes a problem with consequences beyond any individual mind.
The Yoo family operates a hyperbaric oxygen business in Virginia. A fatal explosion brings its owners and customers into a murder trial, where their private circumstances and accounts of the disaster come under scrutiny. This standalone legal mystery connects a search for responsibility with family life and immigration.
In 1986, Marie Mitchell is a Black intelligence officer at the FBI facing restricted opportunities within the organisation. She joins a covert task force directed against Thomas Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso, whom she admires. The mission brings professional duty into conflict with personal judgment, family and attachment. Lauren Wilkinson places a fictional agent in a Cold War historical setting to explore competing demands on her loyalty.
A bloodied stranger reaches a remote Australian police station claiming to have escaped a serial killer who intended him as victim number fifty-five. Another man soon arrives with the same story, reversing their roles. Sergeant Chandler Jenkins must determine which account conceals the killer before the danger spreads.
Isaías has built a life repairing bicycles in Barcelona after leaving Uganda. When Emmanuel asks him to return for a reconciliation meeting, the invitation reopens a childhood shaped by war. His journey confronts the distance between the man he has become and the child soldier he once was.
In her forties, Candela observes the world with a sharp sense of humour and the familiarity of someone accustomed to solitude. Ordinary experiences, private fears and unexpected changes gradually complicate her apparently unremarkable life. Juan del Val builds a portrait of a woman discovering that a new beginning can arrive at any age.
Now an outlaw, Darrow wages a desperate campaign on Mercury while the Republic he helped create faces threats from within and beyond. Rival heirs, political leaders and displaced civilians become part of a struggle over what will survive the revolution.
Pursued by soldiers and former allies after the events in Godsgrave, Mia Corvere must escape a city closing around her. With those she loves in danger, she crosses the Republic in search of answers about her powers and the coming darkness.
Drawing on his experience of passing two competitive civil service examinations, Emilio Cabrera reflects on the uncertainty and persistence involved in preparing for them. The book offers encouragement grounded in his own path, considering how candidates can sustain their commitment through doubt and a demanding period of study.
An unemployed historian, Sandra Valdés, is commissioned to write the biography of Ofelia Arráez, the formidable founder of a shoe business. Contradictory memories complicate the assignment. As Sandra reconstructs another woman’s life, the investigation changes her understanding of the past and the course of her own future.
Alira remains tied to an ancestral mansion in a village that has almost emptied of inhabitants. Torn between the duty of preserving that inheritance and the possibility of another life, she faces a mysterious disappearance. The resulting search draws old relationships and unsettled memories back into the present.
Gideon's attempt to escape the Ninth House is interrupted by an obligation to serve its young necromancer, Harrow. Summoned to compete for a place beside the Emperor, they enter a decaying palace where a coveted transformation is surrounded by lethal mysteries.
As Michka loses her command of words, she moves into a care home and depends increasingly on others. Marie and speech therapist Jérôme accompany her through this change. An unpaid debt of thanks gives urgency to their time together, linking the struggle to communicate with the need to acknowledge kindness.
After her mother dies, Adelaida finds herself increasingly exposed in a violent, collapsing Caracas. An unexpected opportunity to assume another identity offers a possible escape, forcing her to weigh survival against the memories and attachments that have defined her life.
Edited by Mariam Khan, this collection brings together essays by seventeen Muslim women on faith, relationships, feminism and identity. Their differing experiences challenge familiar stereotypes and examine what it means to speak for oneself amid racism and pressures within one’s own community.
A journalist is killed on the Urdaibai railway after being tied to the tracks with a red tulip in her hands. The murderer broadcasts the carefully arranged scene online. The coastal community must confront an adversary who turns an autumn landscape into the setting for a public spectacle.
A network distributing extreme violence online draws Elena Blanco and her team into a dangerous investigation. She withholds a crucial fear from her colleagues: the case may connect to her missing son, threatening the boundary between police work and her private search.
An anonymous letter tells Daniel that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother and directs him to Paris. His search destabilizes his marriage to Sofía. Family secrets unfold across Franco’s Madrid, the upheavals of 1968 and a Berlin divided by espionage and the Wall.